13 occurrences

'Cities' in the Bible

"Your country lies desolate; your cities have been incinerated. Before your very eyes, foreigners are devouring your land they've brought devastation on it, while the land is overthrown by foreigners.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

Then I asked, "For how long, LORD?" He replied: "Until cities lie waste, without inhabitants, and houses without people; and the land becomes utterly desolate.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesEmpty Cities

who made the world like a desert, who destroyed its cities, who would not open the jails for his prisoners?'

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCities Under AttackImprisonments

Prepare a massacre for his sons because of the guilt of their forefathers! They are not to rise and inherit the earth, and cover the surface of the world with cities."

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheFruits Of SinParents SinSins Of The FathersMassacresDadsGuilt

The cities of Oraru will be deserted they will be devoted to herds that will lay at rest, and terrorism will be no more.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock

"At that time, their fortified cities that they abandoned because of the Israelis will be like desolate places of the forests and hilltops there will be desolation.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

At that time, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesFive ThingsCities Under Attack

Therefore strong nations will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

Verse ConceptsApprovalAcclaimingPraising God

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsArmies, Against IsraelNations Attacking Israel

""Didn't you hear how in the distant past I decided to do it, how I planned from days of old? Now I've made it happen that fortified cities become devastated, besieged heaps.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfHistoryDestruction Of CitiesHearing About GodGod Planning Of OldGod's Plans

who carries out the words of his servants, and fulfills the predictions of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, "It will be inhabited," and of Judah's cities, "They will be rebuilt," and of her ruins, "I'll raise them up";

Verse ConceptsBeginningArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredSure KnowledgeRebuilding Jerusalem

They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will build again the ruined cities, they will build again the places devastated for many generations.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBeginningRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingRebuilding JerusalemRenewalbridgesrebuilding

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

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מבדּלה 
Mibdalah 
Usage: 1

πολίτης 
Polites 
Usage: 1

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